Knoxville Stomp Festival: The Tennessee Recording Sessions, 1927-1930 | Panel Discussion

The Knoxville Stomp Festival of Lost Music, May 5-8, celebrates the old-time, jazz, blues, and gospel music of the 1929 and 1930 Knoxville session recordings. The festival opens at the History Center with a panel featuring old-time music scholar Ted Olson, historian Tony Russell, and Bear Family record label head Richard Weize. They will discuss location recordings made in East Tennessee between 1927 and 1930 and the three Bear Family box set reissues of these sessions: the Grammy-nominated The Bristol Sessions, The Johnson City Sessions, and the forthcoming Knox County Stomp: The Knoxville Sessions, 1929-1930. Bradley Reeves of the Tennessee Archives of Moving Image and Sound also will share video from the Heartland Series, including footage of Willie Sievers of the Tennessee Ramblers.

The program is sponsored by the Gentry Griffey Funeral Chapel and is free and open to the public.  The lecture will begin at noon at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville.  Guests are invited to bring a “Brown Bag” lunch and enjoy the lecture. Soft drinks will be available.  For more information on the lecture, exhibitions, or museum hours, call 865-215-8824.